Tom Moran is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar

Theatre (comedy, solo show)

Venue 33
Pleasance Courtyard - Pleasance Below
15:10
Aug 28
1 hour
Suitability: 14+ (Guideline)
Country: Ireland
Group: Tom Moran
Warnings and additional info: This show contains distressing or potential triggering theme and strong language.

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Description

What's the worst lie you've told? How far would you go to keep it a secret? Tom is a charismatic people-pleaser, an expert in empathy, but someone who struggles with the truth. Join him in this hilariously honest solo show as he seeks to exorcise ghosts, confess his deepest darkest secrets and somehow un-f*ck his future. As Tom begs the question, if I never lied again and was just myself, would any of my loved ones still love me? 'The most searingly honest and moving show of the year' ***** (TheArtsReview.com).

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Accessible entry: Queue in cobbled courtyard. Access to space via locked lift, please notify venue ahead of your visit if you require use of the lift and ask at Info Shed upon arrival for access.

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Thomas 46 days ago

This is a beautiful show. I’m not usually keen for monologues, but there’s something really moving about Moran’s tightly composed and performed litany of compulsive lying (which later spirals into further, destructive behavior, but also the saving balm of therapy). There’s a clever use of a microphone for especially confessional moments; and it’s a shame that the blurb for the show mentions the appendix episode, because that’s the best-written 10 minutes of theater that I’ve seen this whole Fringe. (It’s *so* well constructed: that memory just keeps getting more and more surprising—and more and more painful.) Two thumbs up.

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Sean Davis 49 days ago

Tom Moran is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar (***)
Moran asserts that he has been very popular in life because is/was a people pleaser whose winning smile and lying have fooled people all of his life. Though he seemed as sincere in his new found self acceptance, I was left with a feeling that he may well be lying to himself this time.

This is the 28th most enjoyable of the 53 shows I have seen so far at the Fringe this year. I hope to see almost 200.

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